Definition of Treasury stock

1. Noun. Stock that has been bought back by the issuing corporation and is available for retirement or resale; it is issued but not outstanding; it cannot vote and pays no dividends.

Exact synonyms: Reacquired Stock, Treasury Shares
Generic synonyms: Stock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasury Stock

treasurelike
treasurer
treasurer's check
treasurer's cheque
treasurers
treasurership
treasurerships
treasures
treasuress
treasuresses
treasuries
treasuring
treasurite
treasury shares
treasury stock (current term)
treasury tag
treasury tags
treat
treat them mean, keep them keen
treatabilities
treatability
treatable
treatably
treated
treater
treaters
treaties
treating
treatings

Literary usage of Treasury stock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Applied Theory of Accounts by Paul Joseph Esquerré (1914)
"It is usually carried as "treasury stock," but the term does not seem to be satisfactory, because it conveys to many the idea that it represents stock held ..."

2. Corporation Procedure: Law, Finance, Accounting by Thomas Conyngton, Robert Joseph Bennett, Paul Whittier Pinkerton, Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1922)
"Definition The term "treasury stock" is, strictly speaking, limited to stock which has once been issued for value and which through purchase or gift has ..."

3. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"Valuation of treasury stock The case against the inclusion of treasury stock in ... treasury stock differs from unissued stock only in that it has once been ..."

4. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"Valuation of treasury stock The case against the inclusion of treasury stock in ... treasury stock differs from unissued stock only in that it has once been ..."

5. Business Law: A Working Manual of Every-day Law by Thomas Conyngton (1920)
"So long as the treasury stock is held by the company, it can neither vote nor draw dividends. § 358. Lost Certificates A stockholder's rights are not ..."

6. A Manual of Corporate Organization: Containing Information, Directions and by Thomas Conyngton (1913)
"Definition CHAPTER XI treasury stock The term "treasury stock" is employed very ... Such stock is properly treasury stock, is the property of the company, ..."

7. Auditing Theory and Practice by Robert Hiester Montgomery (1912)
"treasury stock: When stock has been issued fully paid and has been returned to the treasury of the company which issued it through purchase or gift, ..."

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